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Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Studies in Art Historiography
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In the mid-1880s The Builder, an influential British architectural
journal, published an article characterizing Renaissance
architecture as a corrupt bastardization of the classical
architecture of Greece and Rome. By the turn of the century,
however, the same journal praised the Renaissance architect Filippo
Brunelleschi as the 'Christopher Columbus of modern architecture.'
Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture, 1850-1914
examines these conflicting characterizations and reveals how the
writing of architectural history was intimately tied to the rise of
the professional architect and the formalization of architectural
education in late nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on a broad
range of evidence, including literary texts, professional journals,
university curricula, and census records, Victorian Perceptions
reframes works by seminal authors such as John Ruskin, Walter
Pater, John Addington Symonds, and Geoffrey Scott alongside those
by architect-authors such as William J. Anderson and Reginald
Blomfield within contemporary architectural debates. Relevant for
architectural historians, as well as literary scholars and those in
Victorian studies, Victorian Perceptions reassesses the history of
Renaissance architecture within the formation of a modern, British
architectural profession.
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